Jim Spencer

The more you make, the more you think you`re worth, a University of Illinois sociologist says. In a study of reactions to pay raises, John Mirowsky found that ''the feeling...

Trees cover about 30 percent of the land in an average United States city, National Geographic magazine reports. There is such a thing as an urban forest, it says, and...

A pair of Harvard researchers have found that people with Alzheimer`s disease, the syndrome of premature and unexplained dementia (or decreased mental function), have fingerprints that are different from those...

Money can`t buy me love? Well, the song writer may have felt that way, but 34 percent of those responding to Money magazine`s fourth annual survey ''Americans and Their Money''...

A note to all aspiring prima ballerinas and their show-biz parents: The price of success is steep. According to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, a...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University studied incidents of fatal choking in children under 5 years of age and came up with a list of culinary culprits. The 10-most-gagging list included...

Forget about brevity, forget about personal achievements. If you want to get hired in today`s tight job market, says Marilyn Moats Kennedy, editor of a monthly newsletter for career planners,...

School teachers who change careers generally are much happier outside the halls of academe, a recent survey shows. The study, conducted by Louis Harris Associates for the Metropolitan Life Insurance...

To heck with platonic relationships and shared chores, the way to save your marriage is with lively sex. That`s the word from Dr. Otto Kernberg, a psychoanalyst in New York....

Americans generate more than 100 million tons of toxic waste a year, according to statistics compiled by the Council on Economic Priorities. That`s about 833 pounds of toxic waste per...